“Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her claim in the outside world in what looks like total autonomyin some cases, even divorce her mother in afiery exit from the familybut there is an invisible emotional cord that snaps herback. For always there is the memory of mother, whose judgments are so completely absorbed into the daughter's identity that she may wonder where Mom leaves off and shebegins.”
